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hálian

  • verb [ weak ]
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Add: , hálig(e)an.
of physical health,
to heal (intrans.).
the subject a person, to recover from wounds or
illness
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  • Hé ongan trumian and háligean

    sanescere coepit,

      Bd. 4, 22 ; Sch. 456, 11.
the subject a body or part of it
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  • Ðonne cólað se líchoma and hálað,

      Lch. i. 82, 10.
  • Smyre ꝥ neb mid; þonne sméþað hyt and hálað,

      86, 9.
  • Smyre Þá sáran góman mid oþ ꝥ hý háligen,

      348, 17.
the subject a wound, sore, &c.
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  • Lege on þá wunde; þonne hálað heó sóna,

      Lch. i. 88, 23.
  • Sió wunde wolde háligean (hálian,

    v. l

    .), æfter ðǽm ðe hió wyrmsde,
      Past. 258, 1.
the subject an indefinite
hit
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  • Gif men his leoðu acen . . . ðonne hálað hyt sóna (cf. gif hund man tóslíte . . . ðonne bið hit sóna hál, 15),

      Lch. i. 86, 23, 4.
  • Wyrc him sealfe ðæt hit hálige, iii. 40, 16.
to be saved. v. hál;
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  • Geþencean wé eác, gif óþer nýten wǽre tó háligienne and geteód tó þon écan lífe, þonne onfénge hé (

    Christ

    ) heora híwe,
      Bl. H. 29, 5.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. heilén sanescere.]
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v. ge-hálian, wan-hálian.
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